BRISTOL City head coach Sean O'Driscoll admitted his team were not good enough to stay in the Championship after watching them go down 3-1 to Huddersfield Town at Ashton Gate. City fans turned up in force hoping to see the relegated Robins at least put up a fight in their final game home game in the second tier.It was the worst display since O'Driscoll was appointed head coach in mid-January and served as a reminder of the massive rebuilding job that awaits the 55-year-old Midlander in the summer. He says.... * We are not good enough.. * If I'm honest, I did not learn anything new about the players. I had my doubts about some and that performance has probably confirmed them. * We have to be realistic and admit we have not been good enough. * I don't think anybody could see that performance coming, especially after the way we played at Hull and over the last three months. * Without a doubt, that was the worst performance since I came here. It was unacceptable and, trust me, it won't happen again. * You ask people to take responsibility and I'm not trying to shift responsibility on to the players. * We pick the team, we prepare the team and we have to take the ultimate responsibility. It is a difficult one to swallow because of the way we have played at home. * Even though the last couple of results have not gone our way, we have been really pleased with the application shown by the players. * He accused the players of lacking pride and admitted Huddersfield had wanted victory more than his team. * When I came through the door three months ago, people told me this was a team that did not care. * But I did not see that in the performances and it was something I had not detected before. * We play at Hull and look like a team that should not be in the relegation zone and then, seven days later, we play like a team that deserves to be in the bottom three. * We have to man up as individuals, as a team and as a football club rather than hide behind things. ...Bullet Points... http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/good...tory-18836054-detail/story.html#axzz2Rq6gcHit SOD is a very complicated man and we really are in deep trouble, it surely can't get any worse and he couldn't detect the problems until the last home match of the season, even though he admitted he had been told when he joined us, strange comment. Surely with 20 games to go, he could have taken some actions, made some decisions to save us, all the other teams around managed to and they have all gained a 10 point margin on us, proof enough or did the board stand in his way and block him, has a corporate decision been made that we were down and enough was enough. Like I said SOD is a complicated man and our board is not very predictable, our manager is very experienced at this level and we should do ok but after reading this and other reports, I find them very confusing and I keep reading different messages coming out of the same words. We are in a transitional state and I think it's going to get worse, when the players are moved out or onward we will hear more, we will have to be patient and wait and see, one thing is for sure we are in a **** state....
Wiz he isn't going to come out in march that the team aren't good enough to stay up, That would just be stupid and would ruin what little team morale was left. Hes now left it until the last game of the season where it doesn't really matter. Yes he could of got players in but clearly we couldn't afford it or players didn't want to come to us. Would you blame them. He tried like McInnes but failed. I said before SOD was appointed nobody would save us, A few times we caught teams up but you're not in the bottom 3 because you're consistent winning games. Its the end of a terrible season. SOD will sort it out during the summer and we will see a more confident footballing side in league 1. We will win more than we lose and will see our selves in the top 10 most of the season. If we stayed in the championship we would of had a repeat of this season again and I don't want to see city go through that. Granted ill be in Australia but ill still be watching very closely. Things will get better.
I will be very pleased if we manage to avoid a second successive relegation next season! That is how bad I believe we are and even Merlin or Harry Potter would final it very difficult to wave their wands and come up with something more positive for the future of Bristol City Football Club. Perhaps the Board did make a decision earlier this season that they would not put any more money down the drain and the only way was for an almost complete turnover of the playing squad to allow us to start operating with financial sense again. I'm amazed that it's taken SO'D this long to realise what we have all known for at least the last three years.
My biggest worry bar none about SOD is that he rates Kilkenny. He said on 20p last Friday that Kilkenny was a very important player for next season as he wants BCFC to play 'possession' football. So Kilkenny is a 'possession' type player is he ? WTF else would you call him - he has no pace,doesn't score, can't head, can't tackle etc etc. In my view Kilkenny's useless at everything but most importantly he just moans and moans at every other player in a red shirt. That does sweet FA for team morale - Kilkenny is a BAD APPLE. SOD can't see it - shows me a massive weakness.
Redprintt if you have to shift players on contract out of a club how do you do it? (a) slag them off say they are rubbish and expect people to make bids for them (b) say you want to keep them as they are good players. Which do you think would get the most decent bids in?
**** that I'm with Redprint on this one i would drive Kilkenny myself to his next club. **** that I would even give him a piggy back. I don't think praising one of your players makes their value go up. I truly believe and I am worried about this that SoD generally does rate him to want him to stay. I know Leeds fans say he was good for them in League one and he could well be. I don't think I've ever wanted to be proved more wrong on a person. But he just moans at his teammates and if you watch him he panicks when someone is near him. I don't want to take a gamble on him next season.
Kilkenny is the epitome of poor inept signings made at this club. I bristle every time the blokes name is on the team sheet.. If i was asked for a contribution towards paying up his contract I would happily donate several hundred pounds.
Don't you think that a state of confusion and false rhetoric has been the order of the day at Ashton Gate for many years, and I see exactly the same obvious, if not idiotic, comments coming out of the mouths of the important people ad nauseum. I really believe that Sean had more than enough time to at least make an effort to right the ship but for some reason no action was taken to address the issues (players) that were our nemesis. I know we are staring at the FFP rules but surely survival should have been the order of this season rather than keeling over in the face of our well known problems. If relegation was our only redemption from other serious issues then so be it, but please don't treat the supporters like idiots and fob them off with lame excuses such has been the case for the last 3 or 4 years. If you want to be successful in any business then you need to get things right and you learn from your mistakes and City haven't found that formula or the people to carry it out yet. What other business allows the employees (players) to decide what they think is best for the club without any form of retribution for their poor work ethic and the answer is nobody. Inmates running the asylum is the phrase that comes to mind.
i'm with redprintt, Kilkenny is absolutely crap, as said he cant head , pass or especially tackle, but i watch him moaning at everyone else and telling them to do his job so he hasnt got to, he really is for morale a very "BAD APPLE"indeed
Just to get this thread back on track and I don't disagree with any comments about Kilkenny. There seems to be a feeling around our club that SOD is the new messiah and people seem afraid to criticise him, well all the man has done has got us relegated, he has talked a lot, waffled a lot and we are all used to that, he has had 20 games (60 points) to keep us up and failed, there is no doubt he is a class act but we have not seen it yet, I still have not been convinced by him but I would be a fool not to wait and see. Here is hoping that he succeeds...Up the City..
I'm not a betting man, have not been inside a bookies since the first week they existed in 1962 or 63. But if I was, I would bet that SO'D does not have any success with City.
I have remained neutral on the subject of Kilkenny until very recently however although I am no great supporter, I can kind of understand the frustration of having a load of blokes around him with very little clue or for that matter, ability. For instance, when did you ever see much movement from anyone other than Sam or any of our midfielders driving up the field or in the box...? - we all know that it never happened. I have a lot more faith than most in out younger players who do play a decent brand of football and I reckon that with a load of youngsters around him with more energy and movement, he might well become an asset...
'I reckon that with a load of youngsters around him with more energy and movement, he might well become an asset...' Sorry Prem, totally disagree. What a fuc**ng example to follow/emulate. I can't think of a WORSE player to play with the kids.
Guess I'm by myself that thinks Kilkenny is a slight mixture of zidane, iniesta and maradona..? Seriously though I agree with everyone on here with the opinions of Kilkenny, terrible terrible player can't head can't tackle can't play a defence splitting pass what the **** does he offer to the team??
My take is Kilkenny has not had the players around him to use his talents. if you watch him he tries to offer a defence splitting ball,how many times has he no option but to go sideways or backwards,the players are not on the same wave length. I understand where SoD is coming from regards Killa,I THINK HE WOULD RUN THE SHOW WITH THE RIGHT PLAYERS AROUND HIM.
I think this too, but with our recent past there's no way SOD will get the opportunity to sign the right players to surround him.
